Horizon Climate Adaptation: Resilient Inland Waterways
Funds €6M projects for research consortia piloting nature-based flood and drought fixes across Europe's canal and river freight network.
Europe moves a lot of freight by river and canal: about 42,000 kilometres of navigable inland waterway across 25 Member States carried 122.1 billion tonne-kilometres of freight in 2022 — roughly 1 in 20 tonne-kilometres of all EU land freight, and one of the lowest-carbon ways to move goods. Climate change puts that at risk. Droughts and low water cut how much a boat can carry, floods and slow-ons…
Research and innovation projects that build a shared climate-risk picture for the EU's navigable inland waterways — roughly 42,000km of TEN-T rivers and canals across 25 Member States — and design real adaptation measures for the waterways, their surroundings, and related water infrastructure such as locks, embankments and flood defences. Projects build a common climate modelling framework, run a network-wide climate risk assessment covering mobility, supply chains, critical infrastructure and cross-border water use, cost both the adaptation measures and the cost of inaction, and pilot adaptation solutions on real waterways, with nature-based solutions prioritised. The two funded projects coordinate with each other and link into the Adaptation Mission's Implementation Platform.
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